back africa's most successful radio drama series. are available online course you can share disco song w africa's facebook and other social media platforms times. hello and a very warm welcome to the 77 percent the show for africa's youth i needed the money and we're bringing you the latest edition of this show from nairobi kenya. here's what's coming up for you in the next half hour. in south africa we meet young entrepreneurs who are getting very creative doing the coronavirus crisis. in ethiopia we discussed how to combat youth unemployment.

and in mali d.j. and sound engineer $50.00 takes us around his hometown of said group. where a few weeks into the corona virus pandemic now and the situation across the continent is difficult and frightening to say the least so how are these dozen cuff is affecting young people economically we asked our correspondents all over africa what the job situation is like in their hometown and what people are doing to try and make the best of the situation here's their take. here in uganda young people have already lost jobs especially the tourism industry. that is the crees and croghan as capital for many zimbabweans survival and that you don't use it. more people are spending time on the

phones and eat games but some are worried they fear that if this pandemic persist it could impact. they may have to depend on your savings to stay afloat most gagnon's live in one being at a time. now before the look down government figures put youth unemployment above 8 percent the post look don't figure could be higher comedy group in kampala known for its weekly shows before hundreds of funds is now performing for an online audience with hope for you tube but such options are limited to very few young people here outside the centers the picture is slightly different mainly because most ugandans in the countryside are farmers they look down as being relaxed for this essential work force to maintain a stable supply of food. a lot of people in zimbabwe have

absolutely no income they survive from hand to mouth through buying and selling on the streets many are worried about the future said lee the government is broken to come up with a rescue package is for its citizens the only hope lies in the slowdown or sudden and of course with 19 for normal life to reap 10. and how is the situation for you 77 percent is what we asked you on facebook and got the following responses bank on our togolese teacher working in booking a foster says at the moment i'm very worried because our contracts have started he goes on to add more company measures are currently being adopted by the authorities it's the famine which is likely to kill us if nothing is done by the state to save us from this situation etienne from nigeria says i'm a driver but due to the lockdown i can't drive anymore my case seems hopeless because. government is not ready to provide anything for us and i'm worried that my

family and i are in a hunger virus situation and eugene sagacious says we all must learn especially the youth here here eugene we're waiting for african governments too much offices are closed industries are closed but we have rich land for agriculture that we can never go hungry well thank you so much for your thoughts. now let's head to south africa like many of the country's strict lockdown and cuffy measures are forcing people out of work but in johannesburg young creatives increasingly moving their businesses to the digital realm as they weather this storm now we spoke to some of them to see how their new digital business models are doing. so it'll the former home of nelson mandela is usually a tourist magnet but since the coronavirus prices the streets have been cleared and the stores closed standing in front of his empty shop. feels completely helpless.

business with. business basically. it's come. crashing down. so that scares me because. it's a devastating situation for young entrepreneurs state support is only available for large companies experts predict youth unemployment will rise even more this year. but those who will set up digital business models before the crisis are in a much better position to ride out the shutdown like yoga teacher and influence t.v. milo sylacauga 4 years ago today milo started to live stream her daily practice sessions since the lock down her number of viewers. has skyrocketed. to

more than 4 wasn't because now it's not a musician and instructor. both markets are interactive because people are looking for music and some people want to stay healthy so. i think it's. more so right now given. around 1000 people tune in every day the training sessions are free for everyone to mellow earns money by promoting a clothing label which she wears during the session. to mellow isn't the only one who is making the most of her digital business. is also exploring the possibilities that live streaming has to offer together with other artists cujo is developing a new commercial for him and. his certain that this technology is a growing trend that will last long after the cold bits 19 crisis tell him the

possibilities are endless i'm looking forward to. like a live concert. some kind of code that you put in just to get you your protests and things are definitely going that's in march south africa's 1st cyber party took place it was a huge success with a lineup featuring many popular musicians and deejays a mammoth $700000.00 listeners today in the online event. but for many young people who are losing their income this offer as little solace expensive internet rates and poor connectivity mean that everyone can simply go digital still calls in so we're told is trying to make the best of things he started marketing his clothes over what's up in facebook he says the crisis has made him rethink the

way. we did as. a species when it comes to. getting out of your comfort zone. and trying to make it. trying to make something out of nothing i think it's a. it's all about how you. you know to the situation that you're currently facing. there's still room for improvement he's sold just 2 pieces so far but calls us ses he want to let the virus win like many others he's in this for the long haul . carolla virus is testing the resilience of african economies but even before the pandemic hit youth unemployment was already one of the biggest challenges on the continent and now it's worse one country with an extremely high youth unemployment rate is if

you appear shortly before the corona virus outbreak i travel to the capital at the suburb or to speak with an inspiring bunch of people and i ask them what can be done to get more young people into the workforce. the 77 percent has explored many subject matters across africa but one word keeps coming up unemployment and we're here in the capital of ethiopia to try and figure out why it is that africans just can't seem to crack the code when it comes to hiring young people and i'd like to begin with it was actually an economist hearing and just to give us an overview of the situation here in ethiopia what's the current rate of unemployment we have recent data that shows and employment is just like more than 25 percent all right let me now come to dulwich who works for the jobs creation commission which is part of government's mandate i read some

interesting statistics that you've created a lot of work and jobs for people within a short span of time but we're hearing 25 percent unemployment that's not good that's correct of course we've been doing this for the past one year. 6 months so. structural problem or unemployment. africa. bit of time. there's a lot of other practitioners that want to get into the medical field and also invest some money and hire but because of some structural problems they haven't been able to absolve the workforce. all right let me now speak to diana here you are right next to me we're hearing that there is a gap in the market because the government is under too much pressure. they're forced to create jobs for everyone but you have taken the initiative and you've decided i'm still in school but i'm going to do something different tell us about that looking for jobs after you graduate is there a bit. too many people that aren't employed it's better to create

a job be interconnected be your own boss and empowering yourself doing something that would change the country help yourself and change your family's life ok let me come back to the economy see what happens when a huge population of educated people goes for years sometimes without employment what the impact of that is it has a wide implication in terms of economics and in terms of politics as well we have seen we have one of the largest migration into the middle east and european countries and we have also this political instability that's mainly driven by the frustration of many young graduates to find jobs in the labor market let me come back to you because we were speaking about the impact of unemployment i mean how does it feel when you hear that doctors who have painstakingly put through school leave the country and go to work in america you care indeed germany the government is seriously seriously concerned and as a citizen i'm also concerned to see you know kids that have gone through you know

67 years of medical school to be out in the job market not finding jobs that is for a country that's tragic and we want to do something about it in our can assure you and i can assure them here that we'll find meaningful employment within their country because there is so much they can do here so much they can do in terms of helping their citizens so let me speak to the doctor who says that he's not found employment have you been tempted to leave this country to look for a job say i don't know in kenya tanzania initially when i came no when i. was i was there to help my country my people but you know after graduating from high school there is an opportunity this year along knowing this coming 23 weeks a year to 1000 physicians are graduating from school so i don't know how will. 100 by the way i should mention that unemployment rates in this country are going down but unfortunately the number of graduates seem to be disproportionately unemployed compared to the national figures ruth earlier we talked about women being

disproportionately disadvantaged by this what's the job market environment for women why is it so difficult for women to get jobs and i think the i think the major factor that. that's creating this kind of problem is the cultural aspect of. like as we all know like women are mostly focused on kids and raising kids and doing some some household work and not being creative and doing something out in the world but now when when it comes to our generation i think it's we're kind of trying to get out there do you think that women for example have been looked over because they're women when they apply for jobs compared to men. maybe yeah i think that's a factor and i'm going to come back to you because we've been talking about the 4th industrial revolution africa being the frontier of that do you feel that the education system is preparing people with the correct skill sets to occupy these jobs it's not unfortunately but we recognize that that's very important right never

too late so we recognize that and you know we're going through reform i don't know how much you were aware of that but there's a new curriculum that's been devised that would incorporate the 21st century skills and everybody talks about it the digital skills so how do we change this dynamic and tiredly how does the african continent solve this issue. i believe that we need to revisit the curriculum and from this of makeshift this graduates are able to compete with. but without the african continent as a whole i mean it's just like sad story to hear that new graduates don't know this the basic computer literacy they don't know how to use email and so on that's a huge problem in terms of being competing with other international labor force ok so we have university students here is it true that you don't have competent i.t. skills is it true it's true. it's true that. when you come

to technology there's some sort of country i don't know why all right so while we're here white how do you how do you think if your pia kenya tanzania all the african countries can resolve the problem of youth unemployment i think when you. use an employment it's not the absence of jobs that are the issue right now you know we're going to end with diets because we keep hearing government government government but to be fair to you the number of jobs that you've created in the one year is simply nothing to be ignored but i want to ask you a different question you said you want to hear from the stakeholders what have you learned today what are you going to implement in your office so for me so much optimism that i like that. as well because you know i was expecting i came to this film expecting a lot of complaints you know young people always i get it in trying to get the government off the cliff right for me i go back to my office and start thinking about maybe starting a small around town hall that we can maybe get used together maybe once or twice

a year and have an open discussion like this one it's been quite quite encouraging to me and if you do have that front table be sure to invite you to cover that ok so this has been a very positive debate to have to say and as doug wood said the youth here are ready the actually have the skills that they just need the support i don't know what you thought about that but i learned quite a bit thank you for saying. now clearly youth unemployment remains a major challenge with all without corona thank you again to everyone who participated in that debate and as usual you can watch a longer version of it on your tip i promise it's worth it. as we know traveling is difficult if not completely impossible right now due to the coverage 19 outbreak but we want to take you somewhere special. before the travel rest. i reports i managed to explore

a small gem in the west african country of mali 230 kilometers away from the capital bamako lies the town of said goo and i can't go to very relaxed to buy when it's become famous actually place thriving music scene local sounded fido takes us around town so let's go. to work come to. what you can call me for. a d.j. . engineer let me show you our own. signal is a laid back town on the banks of the new sheriff in ma canoes transport people and goods and across the nation which is over one kilometer wide at this point locals estimate around 200000 people. hope.

there's no better place than here. in the city you never far from the river it's the backbone of town not just for trade agriculture but for relaxing to. texas to a popular hangout a local you've come to unwind it's never empty and this was someone to tell a great story and yet i don't mind because in this space may not be very light but makes for a very friendly. would become the new river makes what it is quite literally mud from the river banks is used in the pottery architecture and something you say who is known internationally for the famous fabric. fado shows as a local workshop. is a traditional time that's made with but and locally. the book cloth is believed to

ward off danger. i'm aboard i'm glad. we're here in the studio they make but in the traditional way it's used for clothing and. it's lunch time and luckily father knows just the place for a tasty snack he treats us to a safe delicacy grilled fish fresh from the river. it's great we're not going anywhere we have good food lots of fun we make it here. and when you see cigars nightlife you can understand why the town is not just famous for the river but also its music father has been a star of sega's music scene for years and has a following among young say goofiness he's also contributing to say goes future music talent in 2009 but opened his own studio.

percent of the music produced in comes from this place which is my own studio visit there up as i produce. and there's been. say good be ans take their love of music very seriously the annual highlight is the festival on the new share some even call it the woodstock of africa photo is one of the chief sound engineers at the festival musicians play their rocking rhythms alongside traditional mali and hip hop blues and jazz beats and for photo it's a chance to practice his 1st love of sound mixing. this is my 1st profession before becoming a musician i started out as a sound technician. but some $44000.00 young people attend the festival each year. and when father takes to the stage the cheers get even louder.

but. the next report takes place in nairobi kenya now even if traffic has recently slow down it's hard to imagine the capital without much thought to these of the many buses and minivans that most kenyans rely on to get around they're not coristine loud and chaotic and before the lockdown at least always very crowded they usually not the typical workplace for women but we've done typical here so we met a female doctor conductor who told us she would. i want any other job. nairobi is transferred system it's chaotic it's crowded and often on drooly the city's buses or my tattoos as they are known are a tough workplace but they provide entire families with an income. for caroline a song this job means an early start their day begins at 5 am she shares a tiny room with her sister her child and her adopted daughter it's dark and her

neighborhood ism's the safest but it's a risk she has to live with. caroline is the my top 2 conductor when her husband died she started working at a hotel but that didn't pay the bills for her family and the school fees for her 2 teenage sons so she changed jobs. you know a lot of in a money when you can you know come in when you win that way we know sticking with just one in 4 months one who isn't good 15 i think the whole school from 7 to 12. even my mother didn't want that nasty. the wage varies by the date when caroline started out she earns of the equivalent of 6 euros a day nowadays she makes more than double but still there aren't many women doing this job says her colleague. says ladies do you know us ladies here in kenya many

of us don't want to do this work many say it's a stupid job but for me it's good it helps me a lot yeah i mean when you. talk to workers face daily harassment from the police their colleagues and the passengers while caroline has learnt to stand up for herself she's often had to step in for other women. those are maybe receives an extra mile and she wore a t. shirt that's. sure their man was like is this this what i had gotten for move out. then i saw them on what models my toes got going alone after several reports of sexual abuse on buses new laws making sexual harassment punishable by 10 years in prison have made the transport system a little safer and ngo of the flown initiative also supports women like caroline by encouraging transport workers associations crim prove the working conditions look

at do they provide any customer service trainee and if they don't want to provide the training they have. i when asked about sexual harassment we do sensitizing training and we help them develop a sexual harassment when you see core many women of the work of trade unions has made the business more attractive it's still a man's world but women are slowly finding their place i prefer them because. they're very honest. transparent and focused and like many women caroline hopes that she'll one day be able to get a license and finally be in the driver's seat. well for now caroline has to wait a bit because the business here has really slowed down due to the corona virus so unfortunately she can't work on the toxins at the moment but we are keeping our fingers crossed that she'll be back soon well that's it for me for you have any

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